Wednesday, January 31, 2018

January 31,
2018 (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) The first successful
flying tests of the new missile technology - the Ukrainian ground-launched
cruise missile, which can accurately hit ground and naval targets, have been
carried out today. This was reported by Secretary of the National Security and
Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov after the tests. According to
him, this is a solely Ukrainian development completed by designers of the State
Enterprise "State Kyiv Design Bureau "Luch" in cooperation with
other state and private defense enterprises of Ukraine. "During the
successful tests, the flight characteristics and operation of the missile
systems were checked", - he explained.

Mr. Turchynov also informed that the NSDC of
Ukraine, which coordinates the national missile program, set the task "to
develop not only ground-launched cruise missile systems but also sea- and
air-launched". "The range of our cruise missiles and their combat
equipment do not contradict the international agreements signed by Ukraine for
such type of weapons", - he added. "This is a crucial event for
Ukraine, because after the total disarmament of the Ukrainian army in
accordance with the Budapest Memorandum, not a single missile was left in the
Armed Forces of Ukraine", - Mr. Turchynov noticed. "Today's tests
have opened a new stage of the missile program, according to which our Armed
Forces must receive powerful high-performance cruise missiles that can
accurately strike hostile targets at great distances", - Secretary of the
NSDC of Ukraine emphasized summarizing that missile systems of such class
"are an important deterrent against the aggressor".